Davide Di Pretoro
After dancing FAR for 3 years in Company Wayne McGregor, Davide Di Pretoro is entering his second reconstruction of the piece for NYU Tisch Dance' Second Avenue Dance Company's 2019 October Concert. Individuality was essential for Davide when pinpointing dancers to be apart of this reconstruction on Second Avenue Dance Company. Of course there is a Wayne McGregor way of movement, but it is most necessary that the dancers must understand what is asked of them; use precision, intelligence, and specificity to make the movement unique.
Davide explains this initiative with the words, “clever bodies.” “Bodies that understand what is needed in what I say and what I talk about [in order] to correct the attack of the choreography. Then it is good for me. I want to see how you digest the information I give you. The most important thing (to keep Wayne’s vision to a unior company, like SADC) is to explore his world. We are put into the FAR environment and world.”
Second Avenue Dance Company October 2019 Concert
Studio Wayne McGregor’s FAR (excerpt), performed by SADC
Concept, Direction and Choreography: Wayne McGregor
Staged on NYU Tisch Dance Department by Davide Di Pretoro
NYU Tisch Rehearsal Assistant: Dozje Brown
Performers: Morgan Amirah Burns, Isabelle Dayton, Liviya England, Maclean Frey, Savannah Gaillard, Troy Kelley, Elexia Martinez, Michael Miles, Oriana Serena Siphanoum, John Trunfio, Imani Rose Arnett, Maxine Zeliha Flasher-Düzgüneş, Maclean Frey, Israel Harris, Riana Caitlin Pellicane-Hart, Sarah Lutzky, Taína Irma Lyons, Ida María Obediente, John Trunfio, and Jack Tufts.